Looking for a light-weight, but capable operating system? It doesn’t get much lighter than Tiny Core Linux. The disc image for the most basic version of this operating system is just 16MB, and it ...

Several projects exist that purport to be small, run-in-memory distributions. The most popular probably is Puppy Linux. Puppy has spawned several variations, and I have used it several times myself on ...

With the release of version 3.6, the Tiny Core crew have added a GUI method for hard disk installation. As I have, on previous occasions, banged on about this omission, I thought I'd take a look. In ...

It can be very annoying when your desktop operating system takes up a significant amount of space on your hard drive. Fortunately, if you’re truly short of space and need an option that can work ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. As someone who's been around the block a few hundred times with technology, planned obsolescence has long bothered me. When Microsoft released ...

Hypervisors like VirtualBox or VMware can run just about any OS as long as you've got enough hardware power. However, just ...

Once upon a time operating systems shipped on a stack of 1.4MP floppy disks. These days most come on DVDs because the installer files can’t fit on 640MB CDs. And then there’s Tiny Core Linux. Tiny ...

A little while ago, I reported on how someone got a modern-day Linux distro running on a 30-year-old CPU. The key here is that it was a modern distro; while the tinkerer could have easily dug through ...

Developers looking for a tiny Linux computer might be interested in this new VoCore open hardware computer that is roughly the same size as a coin and measures just 25mm x 25mm in size. The VoCore has ...